Monday, November 05, 2012

Bond speculators doubled their long exposure to US ten-year Treasuries
last week, according to CFTC data reported by Reuters. Bloggers at
ZeroHedge noted that this was "the highest position since March 2008."
We talk to hedge fund portfolio advisor Grant Williams about what might
be driving this speculative move. Plus, since Mr. Williams is based in
Singapore, we decided to ask him what the US elections, ZIRP, and the
fiscal cliff look like from Asia.

Morris:Russia will not help Syria too much overtly because it is afraid of the USA and the EU. Yet it is strengthening its ties with China. And for Iran, Russia will do everything except join a war.This
Young man speaking (aka Russian Bear) does not think the 1,000,000
Russian immigrants to Israel have much influence in Russia.This is part 1 of a multi part interview.Source

Submitted by Tyler Durden:Egan
Jones may be a registered NRSRO, but that doesn't matter to the global
status quo perpetuation syndicate ("SQPS" or "the syndicate"). Why?
Because the small rating agency misplaced a comma when it was filing its
NRSRO application with the SEC and has infuriated the same clueless and
corrupt SEC, which 2 years after the flash crash still allows the high
freqs to make a total mockery of the market (as seen here).
Another reason: it recently downgraded Spain to a CC rating, the lowest
and thus most accurate of all rating agencies, with a C rating
projected, which means if its rating were to be taken into account by
the ECB, the result would be massive margin calls amount to 10% or
higher of all the Spanish bonds repoed at the ECB. Instead, the SQPS is
delighted to have Canadian-based DBRS on its side. Why? Because the tiny
firm's A-rating obviates all others' sub-A ratings, this includes
Moodys, S&P and Fitch, at least in the eyes of the ECB and thus
Mario Draghi has an alibi to not demand an additional €17 billion
collateral call from Spain, which would send its banking system on full
tilt (this is money neither Spain, nor its banks has to spare). Which is
why we wish to present to our readers the man behind the Spanish
A-rated myth: Fergus McCormick (Reed College; BA, with honors, French), formerly of Spanish bank BBVA (surely BBVA is not calling in any favors from its former employee currently head of sovereign ratings at DBRS; none at all).

Because if there is one person the SPQS, not to mention Spain's insolvent banks, should erect a monument to post-haste,
it is Fergus, and his A (low) rating which is the only thing keeping
the ECB from extracting its €17 billion pound of flesh from Spain
(something the ECB most certainly does not want to do for numerous quite
obvious just as insolvent reasons).

"Please copy this story; I really don’t think they want it out and might shut it down here. ~J" Via RobIt began when the Republican nomination was stolen. Ron Paul won in a
landslide. Thus far, 25 grand juries have been seated to deal with
felony charges tied to crimes in rigging both the GOP primaries and
convention.
Legal groups across the US are, finally, challenging the overt corruption of America’s “two party dictatorship.”
Even with a flawed constitution, there is nothing that supports this
system, nothing that supports how congress is run and certainly, what
constitution we have should have protected us from rule by foreign
corporations, more specifically, organized crime packaged as “foreign
corporations” that the Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” blasphemy has
saddled us with.
Over the past few days, with my delightfully tapped phone (all calls say
“US Government” on them), those still working for what is legitimate of
that government have been calling. I am told I am the only journalist
that isn’t either “brain dead” or “bought” or “scared to death.”
The volume of information held, the types of information, the mass of it, is mind boggling, even for me.
We’re going to touch on a few “pre-publishing” issues simply because time is running out with the election.
“They love me – They love me not.”
What I can say, early on, is that I get sick of finding fault with
America. Unlike many, I am not bitter, don’t hate my own country, but I
also no longer believe in the American people.
I find that “patriotic Americans” are a brave few, embattled, many
inside the government and military still, many were eliminated during
the Bush era, some returning under Obama but not enough.

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL: BERLIN – Germany’s exports to Iran have totaled over 25 billion euros since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office in 2005.Last
week’s visit by three German deputies to Iran, which included a meeting
with the German-Iranian chamber of commerce, cast an unfavorable light
on Germany’s unbreakable trade relationship with Tehran.Flourishing bilateral trade relations between Germany and the Islamic
Republic have been a source of frustration and anger at times for
Israeli, British, French, and US (Bankster)efforts to impose tough EU economic
sanctions.While Berlin has codified legislation to protect the
religious freedom of Jews and Muslims regarding circumcision within a
rapid fire period of time in 2012 – Bundestag lawmakers refuse to pass
unilateral economic sanctions modeled on (Bankster shill lobbyist paid)US legislation to ratchet up
the pressure on Iran.Dr. Wahdat-Hagh, a leading German-Iranian expert on Iran’s economy and regime, told The Jerusalem Post on Friday that Germany’s volume of exports “stabilize the power of the totalitarian dictator in Iran.”A
comprehensive statistical account of German-Iranian trade from the
Federal Republic’s office of statistics in Wiesbaden viewed by the Post on Friday, covering 1950 to 2011, depicts a booming trade relationship with Ahmadinejad’s government.

GoldCore: Gold edged up a bit on Monday, limiting the fall after the better
than expected US jobs number sent the yellow metal downward to a two
month low. If the US Fed doesn’t need to embark on more stimulus measures this
may limit the yellow metal’s appeal with investors who see continuous
money printingby central banks as increasing inflation and debasing
currencies.The US dollar limited gold’s rebound as it hit its highest in 2 months as investors parked money there before the US election.This week there is an ECB policy meeting on November 8th and also a key gathering of the Chinese Communist Party. US Economic highlights include ISM Services at 1500 GMT today.
Wednesday’s data is Consumer Credit, Thursday Initial Jobless Claims
and the Trade Balance and Friday Export & Import Prices, Michigan
Sentiment, and Wholesale Inventories are published. Turkey’s trade deficit has been shrinking and the country has enjoyed
the best bond rally in the emerging markets this year due in part to
the contributions of airline passengers transporting gold in their
baggage.Statistics from Istanbul’s 2 main airports show $1.4 billion of precious metals were registered for export in September.

Submitted by Tyler Durden: It would appear, based on the latest war games from Israel's Institute of National Security Studies,
that we should all go back to sleep and not worry about the impact of
an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear infrastructure. The reason not to
worry is simple - either it ignites World War III(which
we presume means it will be all over very rapidly and we will be
blissfully unaware until its too late to be capable of achieving
anything)or - as they suspect (and gamed out) - there will
be a focus on 'containment and restraint' with Iran unable to ignite
the Middle East. The result is predicated on 'actors' motivated by rationalconsiderations; which seems entirely irrational. All the gory details below...

War Game: The Hours following an Attack on Iran’s Nuclear InfrastructuresThe Policies of the Actors and Principal InsightsThe Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) held a war
game (simulation) focusing on the first 48 hours after an Israeli aerial
attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructures.The ScenarioAfter midnight on November 9, al-Jazeera reports that Israeli
airplanes have attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities in three waves of
attack. As reports multiply, Israel officially announces it has attacked
Iran’s nuclear sites because it had no other choice. According to the
scenario, Israel did not coordinate the attack with the United States in
advance, and only informed the US once the planes were already en route
to the Iranian targets.

In days, Nigeria's Parliament could approve a $5 billion fine against giant oil polluter Shell
and set in motion a law that would hold oil companies to account for
the first time ever. The President endorses the penalty, but Big Oil are
lobbying MPs like crazy to vote against reform. Our voices can drown them out to win justice for Nigeria's people. Join the urgent call now!

Dear friends,In days, Nigeria's Parliament could approve a $5 billion fineagainst
giant oil polluter Shell for a spill that devastated the lives of
millions of people, and pass a law to hold all oil companies to
account for polluting and plundering. This is a watershed moment, but
unless we all speak out, oil giants will crush it.

Finally, Big Oil is having to pay for the wasteland and violence that they’ve created.President Jonathan supports the Shell fine,
and progressive Senators are pushing for strong regulations, but oil
companies are slick, and without huge international support MPs could
buckle under the pressure.

Politicians are deciding their positions right now -- sign the urgent petition for the Nigerian Parliament to fine Shell and support the bill, and then forward this to everyone -- when we hit a million signers we'll bring our unprecedented global call to the steps of Nigeria's Parliament:

Experts say that every year Big Oil spills as much crude into the Niger Delta as an Exxon Valdez,
but as it is Africa, it gets little media play. After a leak occurred
at Shell's Bonga oil facility last December, millions of gallons poured
into the ocean and washed up on the densely populated coast -- resulting
in one of the largest African oil spills ever. The fine and bill on the table are a once in a lifetime chance to stand up toBig Oil.

By Wolf Richter:Timing couldn’t have been worse. Or more opportune. A “secret” report
by the German version of the CIA, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), bubbled to the surface,
asserting that the pending bailout of Cyprus would use the money of
taxpayers in other countries, particularly in Germany, to bail out
mostly rich Russians who have over the years deposited their “black
money” in Cypriot banks that are now collapsing.Not that the bailout of this tiny speck of land with 840,000 people
isn’t in enough trouble. Admitted into the Eurozone in 2008, Cyprus
veered towards bankruptcy in 2011 but was temporarily bailed out last
November by a €2.5 billion loan from Russia. That money didn’t last
long. In June, it asked the Troika, the austerity gang from the EU, the
ECB, and the IMF, for a full-fledged bailout. So Troika inspectors have
been combing through the financial rubble to determine a bailout amount
and needed structural reforms.On Thursday, Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly was still optimistic.
He hoped that negotiations with the Troika would conclude before the
November 12 meeting of Eurozone finance ministers. On Friday, he admitted
that a number of issues were still unresolved, including privatization
of state-owned enterprises and elimination of Cost of Living Adjustments
for wages, both of which have hit a wall of resistance. But then, a
Troika report that Reuters “obtained
in Berlin” considered Cyprus’ latest proposal for structural reforms
“insufficient” and urged the government “to cooperate with the Troika.”

By Madison Ruppert: While the “profoundly man-made disaster” at the Fukushima nuclear power plant continues unabated with independent experts continually blocked from gaining access,
it has now been revealed that the six members of a Japanese government
team drafting the new nuclear reactor safety standards have received
tens of thousands of dollars from the nuclear industry.According to a report put out by Japan’s Kyodo News
a whopping four out of six experts on the panel drafting new safety
standards have received funds from companies directly involved in the
nuclear industry.The grants, donations and compensation range from 3 million yen (around $37,290) to over 27 million yen (around $335,600) each, according to data released by the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA).While the NRA claimed that the members of the panel “have been
selected in line with rules, and there should be no problem,” Kyodo News
rightly points out that critics “say the members’ judgments might be
swayed by the wishes of donors, exposing safety regulations to the risk
of being watered down.”Indeed it seems so painfully obvious that it is somewhat laughable to even qualify such a statement with the word “might.”

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Are YOU Involved or Institutionalized? Our belief that the global economic crisis would persist and deepen is being vindicated and current events are now as clear as ever on the matter. Time for all of us to wake up, stand up and be counted or continue to lose all our liberties. Protect your homes and families. The sun will still rise but financial chaos and suffering due to the global fascist banksters' greed and corruption, slaughter due to the MIC's directed world wars in our name etc. is not pretty. We are feeling the effect on our society the size and like of which we have never known.

We are way past being surprised at the blanket suppression of this information by the BBC and main stream media propaganda machines. Information is clearly available elsewhere and unchallenged, accounts for a far more realistic rendition of what we have actually seen and what we continue to see develop, whilst the main stream news put out leaves many confused and bewildered, 99.9% of us wrong footed and the awakened indignant. As we can now see, the apparently 'soft fascist' powers that be aim to block these alternative avenues of information. Book up, "Long Live the Evolution."Feel free to copyme. Angelo Agathangelou.

P.S. The MHRM, are calling out the constant misinformation disseminated by and maintain our open challenge especially to western radical feminists, to point out just one area where government in the UK, Europe or anywhere else in the English speaking world disadvantages women and girls when compared with men and boys, ...the wage disparity myth having long been debunked by serious academics and statisticians. So far this challenge has remained unanswered. Western feminism is obsolete.

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